see Africa Stage Two

Remarkable moment’s in the past 

Africans Today
Abyssinia
The Ethiopian Empire spans a geographical area of today Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti,and included parts of Northern Somalia, Southern Egypt, Eastern Sudan, Yemen and Western Saudi Arabia. Abyssinia was an empire that existed for more than 800 years, from circa 1137 (beginning of Zagwe Dynasty) until 1974 when the Ethiopian monarchy was overthrown in a coup d'etat.
Ethiopia

Afars and Issas Territory
formerly known as French Somaliland, the French colony was renamed to the French Territory of Afars and Issas (1967 - 1977),the territory became independent in 1977, known today as Djibouti. Djibouti

Basutoland
formerly a British protectorate became independent in 1966 as the Kingdom of Lesotho.
Lesotho

Bechuanaland
formerly a British protectorate became independent in 1966 as Republic of Botswana.
Botswana

Belgian Congo (1908 - 1960)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Benadir
a coastal region of Somalia; covering most of the Indian Ocean coast of the country, from the Gulf of Aden to the Juba River, formerly part of Italian Somaliland.
Somalia

Biafra, Republic of (named after the Bight of Biafra) nowadays part of
Nigeria

Bophuthatswana - nominal republic and homeland for Tswana-speaking people, 1949 reincorporated into
South Africa

Bourbon Island
Reunion Island

British Bechuanaland (region) incorporated into the Cape Colony (1895)
South Africa

British East Africa or East Africa Protectorate
British protectorate from 1890 until 1920
Kenya, Tanzania,Uganda, and parts of Somalia (Jubaland)

Cape Colony, 1795-1797 British colony, 1803-1806 colony of the Batavian Republic (Netherlands), since 1910 part of
South Africa

Central African Empire
Central African Republic

Kenya Colony
The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was part of the British Empire in Africa. It was established when the former East Africa Protectorate was transformed into a British crown colony in 1920.
Kenya

Ciskei (Republic of Ciskei)- homeland for Xhosa-speaking people, 1994 reincorporated into
South Africa

Dahomey; (the Republic of Dahomey; in French: République du Dahomey), was a former French colony andpart of French West Africa until independence in 1960, in 1975 the Republic of Dahomeychanged its name in Benin.

Dan Ho Me was an ancient Kingdom located in the south of today Benin.
Benin

French Guinea was a French protectorate in West Africa, after independence from France in 1958 it became today
Guinea

French Somaliland
Djibouti

French Sudan
Mali

French West Africa
was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegambia and Niger, French Sudan,French Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Upper Volta and Dahomey.
Mauritania, The Gambia, Senegal,Niger, Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire,Burkina Faso and Benin.

German East Africa (German: Deutsch-Ostafrika)
a German colony from 1885 until 1919 which included Burundi, Rwanda and Tanganyika (the mainland part of present Tanzania), an area almost three times the size of Germany today. German East Africa colony ended with the defeat of Imperial Germany in World War I. With the Treaty of Versailles the territory was divided between Britain (Tanganyika.), Belgium (Ruanda-Urundi), and Portugal (to become part of Mozambique).
Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania

(German) Southwest Africa
Namibia

Gold Coast
Ghana

Grain Coast
Liberia

Hausaland, consisted of seven independent city-states: Biram, Daura, Gobir, Kano, Katsina, Rano, and Zaria.
Niger, Nigeria

Italian East Africa (former name for Italian possessions in eastern Africa)
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia

Kaffraria, former name for Transkei

South Africa

Katanga - 1960, Belgium granted independence to the Congolese province of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Malagasy Republic
Madagascar

Mali Federation, was a country in West Africa 1959-1960, formed by a union between
Senegal and Mali

Nubia (region)
Sudan, Egypt

Nyasaland
Malawi

Portuguese East Africa (Província Ultramarina de Moçambique)
Mozambique or Portuguese East Africa (officially the State of East Africa) for almost 500 years a Portuguese Colony, 1498–1975. See also: Portugal
Mozambique

Rhodesia, Northern
Zambia

Rhodesia, Southern
Zimbabwe

Rio de Oro (region)
Western Sahara
Ruanda
Rwanda

Sahara Occidental, Spanish name for
Western Sahara
Sahel (region) Burkina Faso, Chad, The Gambia,Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania,Niger, Senegal

Senegambia (region; former name of the confederation of Senegal and Gambia)
The Gambia, Senegal

Songhay (Songhai), in the 16th century a major empire of the Western Sudan, in the region of
Mali, Mauritania

South-West Africa (SWA, German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika), a German colony from 1884-1915
Namibia

Spanish Guinea
Equatorial Guinea

Spanish Sahara
Western Sahara
Spanish West Africa (former name for Ifni and Spanish Sahara)
Morocco, Western Sahara

Stellaland, Republic of; annexed by the Boers later British Bechuanaland, incorporated into the Cape Colony (1895)
South Africa

Sudanese Republic
Mali

Tanganyika Territory, united with the islands Zansibar and Pemba it became
Tanzania

Togoland (British Togoland), since 1957 part of
Ghana

Transkei (former Kaffraria and one of ten "black homelands" and nominal republic, in Southeast of )
South Africa

Transvaal or ZAR - Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek; today the Province Limpopo of
South Africa

Ubangi-Shari (Oubangui-Chari) a former French territory in central Africa, whith independence on 13 August 1960 the country became the
Central African Republic

Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa was formed on 31 May 1910 as a parliamentary union of the four self-governing British colonies: the Cape of Good Hope Province (Cape Province; previously Cape Colony), Natal Province (Natal Colony), the Orange Free State Province (Oranje Vrij Staat/Orange River Colony) and the Transvaal Province (Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek/Transvaal Colony). The Union came to an end in 1961with a new constitution and became the "Republic of South Africa".
South Africa

Upper Volta, Burkina, today
Burkina Faso

Urundi
Burundi

Zaire, changed its name in 1997 to
Democratic Republic of the Congo


Zanzibar (island, east off the coast of Tanzania) a former protectorate of Britain. Zanzibar gained independence in1963 united with Tanganyika, today it is a semi-autonomous part of
Tanzania

Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) or Transvaal colony; today the Limpopo province of
South Africa